Democratic Establishment to Clinton voters: We made your choice for you. Now abide with it.

And give us more money. Now.

It takes real skill to write a letter this dumb, but – thank God! – we’re talking about the Democratic Party here, so they had somebody on retainer to do it. Via Gateway Pundit and Talking Points Memo:

Dear Democratic Friends:

2008 is a Democratic year-at all levels in all the states. The opportunity is ours. We just have to seize it.

I supported Hillary Clinton and am proud and pleased that I did. But she lost. Barack Obama won. It’s over.

It is time for all Democrats, supporters of Senator Clinton and all other contenders for the nomination, to stand with him to secure his election and the election of Democrats at all levels of competition.

I must confess a bit of fatigue and irritation with people who continue to carp, complain, and criticize the results of the primary and lay down conditions for their support. The Los Angeles Lakers didn’t establish conditions to recognize the Boston Celtics as NBA Champions; Roger Federer did not demand concessions before recognizing that Rafael Nadal defeated him at Wimbledon.

It is time to act in a mature and resourceful fashion. It’s time to put the primaries behind us. It’s time to support Barack Obama without conditions or demands.

It’s time to WIN for Barack Obama, the Democratic Party, America, and our future. We have an unparalleled opportunity. I hope we will all do everything we can to seize the moment.

See you at the Inauguration.

Sincerely,

Don Fowler DNC Member At-Large, South Carolina Former Chair of the Democratic National Committee

Alice Germond Secretary, Democratic National Committee

Amusingly, Don Fowler is apparently the guy who changed all the rules in the DNC back in the day, thus eventually causing the Democrats to spend over 400 million dollars this year on a primary that required the intervention of Establishment Democrats. Brilliant job there, Don. No wonder you’re testy.Let’s just highlight this paragraph again, shall we?

I must confess a bit of fatigue and irritation with people who continue to carp, complain, and criticize the results of the primary and lay down conditions for their support. The Los Angeles Lakers didn’t establish conditions to recognize the Boston Celtics as NBA Champions; Roger Federer did not demand concessions before recognizing that Rafael Nadal defeated him at Wimbledon.

Wasn’t that just the funniest thing? You’d never know from that paragraph that neither of the last two candidates standing in the primaries had managed to do what Carter, Mondale, Dukakis, Bill Clinton, Gore, or Kerry did: to wit, actually win said primary on their own hook. You see, contra to Fowler, the game isn’t actually over yet. It’s effectively over: it’s practically over; and it may even be inevitably over; but it’s not yet actually over. And I can assure the Democrats that neither the Lakers nor Mr. Federer (to use Fowler’s two examples) would quietly let the referees stop either competition with time left on the clock in order to declare a winner.

At this point, some lurkers are muttering that I’m merely causing trouble. True, except for the “merely” part. I know that it’s a real pain for some of you to have to read yet again how badly the Democrats messed up your primary, but as long as the repercussions are bouncing around, I’m going to happily keep pointing them out. And there’s something really fun about this one, especially since it’s causing people to write letters where they yell at other people for committing the grevious sin of being upset that their democratic choices got completely overwritten.

(Via DemConWatch ) The above are the super-delegates supporting Barack Obama, as of 06/06/2008. They are, in fact, the only reason why he is the assumed Democratic nominee: the actual results of the Democratic primary race was 1773.5 Obama, 1634.5 Clinton… neither of which equals a simple majority (2,118) of the total delegates. But it looks like that nomination fight didn’t really signify, in the end; what signified was that enough appointed members of the Democratic establishment have declared that they plan to give the nomination next month to a particular candidate. Put another way: the above list are the real Democrats. The ones that matter. All the rest of you guys simply exist to give them money.

So, Clinton supporters: learn your place, already! It’s not like you have any options, right?